Abstract

Abstract
Lung disease is a health problem in Indonesia, one of them is asthma. WHO data showed 300 million people worldwide are
diagnosed with asthma, and is expected to increase to 400 million people in 2025. In asthma, there’s bronchiolus muscle spasms that cause the shortness of breath, difficulty in expiration, decreased lung capacity and weakened physical condition. Asthma treatment efforts have been implemented pharmacologically with drugs that are controller nor reliever.
Successful treatment of asthma should be supported from the physical factors such as physical exercise and education, one of the efforts is asthma gymnastic, it is necessary to reinforce the respiratory muscles. Lung function measurements used to assess airway obstruction, lung function abnormalities reversibiliti and lung function variability. Asthma is an reversible obstructive lung disease. The dominant clinical symptoms is a history of episodes the shortness of breath, especially at night
are often accompanied by a cough. One way to relieve the obstruction is doing some physical sports such as gymnastics
asthma. Gymnastics asthma is considered capable of reducing obstruction and increase the elasticity of bronchial and
respiratory muscles. It found that people who do gymnastics asthma were able to reduce the recurrence of asthma
exacerbation. Lung function results can be better if patients routinely doing gymnastics asthma.
Keywords: asthma, gymnastic asthma, lung function, shortness of breath, treatment